NYCPHP Meetup

[Brian D.]

If you're using you're own solution, KCaptcha worked pretty well for me.

http://www.captcha.ru/en/kcaptcha/

It's fairly simple and it's algorithm is pretty effective.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001001.html

On Jan 24, 2008 8:05 AM, Adrian Noland <anoland at indigente.net> wrote:
> In addition to all the other comments made, strip_tags() is helpful in this
> situation.
>
> http://us.php.net/strip_tags
>
> As for excluding "www.", you need to do something like this:
>
> $form_data = preg_match("www." "", $form_data);
>
>
> http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-replace.php
>
>
>
>  On 1/23/08, Susan Shemin <susan_shemin at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Is this "escaping" that you guys have been talking about what you use to
> filter acceptable data into textbox form?
> >
> > If so, can you explain exactly what is being used (e.g., htmlentities) and
> how to use it?
> >
> > Actually I need to filter out nonpermitted characters since someone put a
> Viagra advertisement into the php blog I created!  (Caught it quite quickly
> and deleted the entry from the database.)  I'd like to exclude "www." from
> being entered into a form.
> >
> > Susan
> >
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